Fake Dating & Full-Cast Audiobooks: Creating Know Your Newlywed with Heather Taylor and Hillary Nussbaum (E131)
In today’s episode, we have not only one guest but two! I am chatting with HEATHER TAYLOR and HILLARY NUSSBAUM. Together they wrote Know Your Newlywed, a full-cast audio production starring Mary Mouser of Cobra Kai and Tyler Posey of Teen Wolf. Know Your Newlywed is set between Boston and Chicago, and the female main character is an anthrozoologist—how cool is that? Heather writes and directs TV, film, and audio projects about complicated family relationships. She strives to destigmatize mental illness, disabilities, and poverty in her work. Hillary is a writer, director, and producer with a background in television development.
Episode Highlights:
Writing Exclusively for Audio – The challenges of storytelling without visual descriptions.
Creating Connection Through Sound – How to portray emotions, chemistry and pivotal relationship moments using only audio.
Sound Environments – Using sound design to transport listeners between different settings.
Casting & Voice Acting – The fascinating process of selecting voice actors and how they create authentic relationships despite recording separately.
Collaboration in Audiobook Production – The teamwork between writers, directors and voice actors to bring the story to life.
Book Flight: Rom-Coms with the Fake Dating trope.
Connect with Heather Taylor and Hillary Nussbaum:
Show Notes
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Books and authors mentioned in the episode:
The Shennara Series by Terry Brooks
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Kitchen Science
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
Population: 485 - Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry
The Night Shift by Dr. Brian Goldman
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Aknar
Book Flight
The Spanish Love Decepetion by Elena Armas
Funny Story by Emily Henry
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
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